Cheap residential proxies don't have to mean recycled, abused IPs. Residential Basic draws from the same 90M+ real-home IP pool as our premium tier and simply routes it through leaner infrastructure — real ISP-assigned addresses in 200+ countries from $0.80/GB, with rotating and sticky sessions included.
A cheap residential proxy is a real home IP address offered at a budget price per gigabyte — in our case by streamlining the routing layer, not by sourcing lower-quality IPs. Traffic still exits through genuine ISP-assigned household connections, so targets see an ordinary visitor, not a datacenter range. The trade-off against premium is throughput headroom and targeting granularity, not IP authenticity: Basic targets by country across 200+ locations, while Premium adds state, city, ZIP and ASN-level precision with the fastest routes.
Both tiers pull from the same 90M+ residential pool, support rotating and sticky sessions, speak HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, and are managed from the same dashboard and REST API. Basic costs from $0.80/GB with country-level targeting and sub-500ms typical response times — right for SEO rank tracking, price monitoring, content verification and light scraping. Premium, from $2.50/GB, adds city and ASN-level targeting, priority routing and the throughput you want for heavy scraping or time-sensitive collection. Start on Basic; if a target needs finer geo control or more speed, switch tiers without changing your integration.
Budget residential bandwidth shines on steady, repeatable jobs: tracking search rankings across countries, monitoring competitor prices, verifying that content and ads render correctly per market, feeding SEO tools, and collecting public data from sites that block datacenter IPs. Because sessions can stay sticky, it also handles logins and multi-step flows. At $0.80/GB you can afford to run these tasks continuously instead of rationing bandwidth — the typical Basic user runs daily monitoring jobs that would be uneconomical on premium pricing.
Plans are pure pay-per-GB with no subscriptions and no expiry: $50 for 50 GB,
The free trial is self-serve: create your account and activate it straight from the dashboard. Same 90M+ residential pool, so you can benchmark success rates on your own targets before spending anything.
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The smallest plan is 5 GB for $5. No sales call, no annual contract, no 100 GB minimum just to unlock the advertised rate.
Basic is not a lower-grade pool. It draws on the same 90M+ ISP-assigned residential network — you trade concurrency headroom and premium routing for a lower price, not IP quality.
Country targeting, rotating and sticky sessions, HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5 and unlimited concurrent sessions are included. Cheap providers usually charge for at least one of these.
Headline prices hide the catch — the cheapest per-GB rate usually needs the biggest upfront plan. Here is the entry price next to what you actually have to spend to get it:
| Provider | Entry price / GB | Minimum spend | Geo-targeting | IP pool |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QuantumProxies Basic ($0.80/GB at 1 TB) | .00 | $5 · 5 GB | Country · State · City · ASN | 90M+ |
| DataImpulse | .00 | $5 · 5 GB | Country (city/ASN extra) | 90M+ |
| Evomi | $0.49 | $49.99 · 100 GB | Country · State · City · ISP | 54M+ |
| Oxylabs | $6.00 | $30 · 5 GB | Country · State · City · ZIP | 175M+ |
| IPRoyal | $7.00 | $7 · 1 GB | Country · State · City | 64M+ |
Public list prices and targeting options from each provider's own pricing page, 25 July 2026, excluding limited-time promo codes. Entry price is the advertised per-GB rate on the smallest plan you can buy — Evomi's $0.49/GB, for instance, requires a $49.99 monthly plan.
Budget residential IPs are the right tool for steady, unglamorous work — the jobs that need to look residential but do not need premium routing.
Track competitor prices across regional storefronts on a fixed monthly budget.
Pull localized search results from 200+ countries without paying premium per-GB rates.
Check how campaigns render to real users in each market, at a cost that scales with volume.
Test geo-gated flows and localization from a real residential IP before you ship.
One gateway host — everything else is controlled from the proxy username: country, state, city, ISP, rotation and session lifetime. Copy a snippet and you're live in under a minute.
Standard HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 means zero lock-in: plug QuantumProxies into scraping frameworks, antidetect browsers and automation tools without adapters.
Create an account, top up from $2.50 and generate your first proxy in minutes. No subscription required — pay per GB and top up whenever you need to.
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| Protocols | HTTP / HTTPS / SOCKS5 |
|---|---|
| Authentication | Username:Password or IP Whitelist |
| IP Pool Size | 90M+ residential IPs worldwide |
| Geo-Targeting | 200+ countries |
| Session Types | Rotating (per-request) or Sticky |
| Concurrent Sessions | Unlimited |
| Bandwidth | Pay-per-GB from $0.80/GB |
| Response Time | <500 ms |
| Proxy Format | host:port:username:password |
| API Access | REST API for proxy management |
| Dashboard | Real-time usage tracking |
| Uptime | 99.9% guaranteed uptime SLA |
Every proxy type trades off trust, speed and cost differently. Here is how our five networks compare, so you can match the proxy type to the job.
| Proxy type | IP source | Best for | Detection risk | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | Real home ISP connections | Web scraping, ad verification, geo-restricted content | Very low | From $2.50/GB |
| Residential Basic | Same residential pool, budget routing | Light scraping, SEO tools, price monitoring | Low | From $0.80/GB |
| Datacenter | Cloud and datacenter servers | High-volume scraping of low-protection targets | Moderate | From $0.50/GB |
| ISP (static residential) | ISP-registered IPs on datacenter lines | Account management, long sessions, sneaker drops | Very low | From $2.50/IP |
| Mobile | Real 4G/5G carrier networks | Social media, app testing, the toughest targets | Lowest | From $2.50/GB |
| IPv6 | Massive IPv6 subnets | Bulk operations on IPv6-ready websites | Low on supported sites | From $0.20/GB |
All plans include HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 support, username:password or IP-whitelist authentication, and the same dashboard and REST API.
Residential Basic is our cheapest residential option:
Both use the same 90M+ ISP-assigned residential pool. Premium adds state, city and ISP-level targeting, longer sticky sessions and premium routing tuned for hard targets; Basic keeps country-level targeting and costs roughly a fifth as much per GB.
Yes — Residential Basic plans carry 30 days of validity.
Yes, and it is self-serve — create an account and activate the free trial from your dashboard, no sales call needed. It runs on the same Residential Basic pool, so you can measure success rates on your own targets. The smallest paid plan is 5 GB for $5.
Yes. Every plan rotates by default — a new residential IP on each request — and you can switch to a sticky session from the proxy username when a flow needs the same IP for longer. Both modes cost the same.
Yes. HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 all work on the same credentials, with no protocol surcharge. Authenticate by username:password or whitelist your server IPs.
For price monitoring, rank tracking, ad verification and testing, yes — the IPs are real residential addresses and behave like them. For the hardest anti-bot targets, premium routing and city or ISP-level targeting make a measurable difference, and that is what our Premium tier is for.
Yes — Residential Basic uses the same ethically sourced, ISP-assigned home IPs as our premium tier. The lower price comes from leaner routing infrastructure, not from abused or low-reputation address pools, so success rates on ordinary targets remain high.
Two things: targeting and speed. Basic targets at country level while Premium adds state, city, ZIP and ASN precision; and Premium routes get priority, which matters for heavy scraping. IP quality is identical — both tiers draw from the same 90M+ pool.
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Yes. Every Residential Basic plan includes rotating sessions (new IP per request) and sticky sessions, plus HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 support and unlimited concurrent connections — nothing rotation-related is paywalled.
Yes, all three protocols — HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 — are supported on every plan, with authentication by username:password or IP whitelist.
Residential Basic covers 200+ countries with country-level targeting. If you need state, city, ZIP or ASN-level precision, that's the premium residential tier — same pool, finer controls.
Upgrade when you need city or ASN-level targeting, or when a time-sensitive workload needs priority routing and maximum throughput. The integration is identical, so switching tiers is a plan change, not a code change.
The 50 GB plan at $50 is the lowest-cost way to test Residential Basic at real volume, and bandwidth is valid for 30 days. Contact support via live chat if you want help validating a specific use case before buying.
Residential Basic is the entry point to real residential IPs: the same authentic 90M+ pool, a leaner price, and an upgrade path to premium targeting whenever you need it. Buy a plan, generate your proxy string, and be collecting data minutes from now — with bandwidth is valid for 30 days.